Tag Archives: thyroid cancer

‘I Do Not Want Any Children to Develop Cancer Like Me’, a Fukushima Resident Says via Global Voices

Posted on 2016/05/28 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Independent filmmaker Ian Thomas Ash has uploaded to YouTube a four-part interview with a young woman from Fukushima Prefecture who has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Now 20, the interviewee was 15 years old when, following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the … Continue reading →

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Young woman from Fukushima speaks out (4 parts) via Nuclear-News

Posted on 2016/05/22 by norma field

This interview was filmed on February 12, 2016, in Fukushima Prefecture. The young woman was 15 at the time of the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, and we are releasing this interview with her permission. She is one of the 166 … Continue reading →

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Spotlight: Fukushima, an ongoing tragedy Japanese government has brushed aside via Xinhuanet

Posted on 2016/05/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TOKYO, May 20 (Xinhua) — Toshihide Tsuda, professor of environmental epidemiology at Okayama University, found that the rate of children suffering from thyroid cancer in Fukushima Prefecture in Japan was as much as 20 to 50 times higher than the … Continue reading →

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Fukushima Five Years After: Health Researchers Turn Blind Eye to Casualties via CounterPunch

Posted on 2016/04/12 by norma field

By Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman […] Public health leaders have addressed the topic with ignorance and deception. A search of the medical literature shows only two studies in Japan that review actual changes in disease and death rates. One … Continue reading →

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AP Interview: Japan Lawyer Wants No-Nukes After Fukushima via ABC News

Posted on 2016/04/07 by norma field

Lawyer Hiroyuki Kawai stands out in Japan, a nation dominated by somber dark suits: When not in a courtroom, he often wears colorful shirts and crystal-covered animal pins. He is a Noh dancer, a tenor and, of late, a filmmaker. … Continue reading →

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The children of Fukushima: When medical tests mislead via The Chicago Tribune

Posted on 2016/03/25 by norma field

Editorial […] Japanese public health officials were aware of an increased incidence of thyroid cancer in Russian children after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident. So researchers screened more than 300,000 Fukushima-area children 18 and under for thyroid irregularities that could … Continue reading →

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Families of Fukushima thyroid cancer patients launch support group via The Mainichi

Posted on 2016/03/15 by norma field

Families of children in Fukushima Prefecture who were diagnosed with thyroid cancer through health checkups conducted by the prefectural government in the wake of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant disaster launched a family association on March 12. The “311 … Continue reading →

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Child thyroid cancer in Fukushima many times national average: report draft via The Mainichi

Posted on 2016/02/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

An expert committee sanctioned by the Fukushima Prefectural Government has approved the final draft of a midterm report stating that the proportion of child thyroid cancer cases being found in Fukushima Prefecture is many times higher than the national average. … Continue reading →

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Professor Toshihide Tsuda’s Press Conference on “Pediatric Thyroid Cancer After the Fukushima Accident” via Fukushima Voice Version 2e

Posted on 2015/11/25 by norma field

[…]2. Significance of publication of the paper and the issue of screening effect and the overdiagnosis discourse　 This analysis revealed that thyroid cancer incidence within three years of the accident increased by several tens of times in Fukushima residents who … Continue reading →

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Tsuda Toshihide via “Nucléaire et Faibles doses,” CNRS, Paris

Posted on 2015/11/24 by norma field
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